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"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
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"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."
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Personal Development
"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"
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Personal Development
"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
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Personal Development
"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"
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Personal Development
"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."
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Personal Development
"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."
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Personal Development
"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
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Personal Development
"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."
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Personal Development
"I think I'm a focus for international attention."
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Personal Development
"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."
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"They took my mother's stomach out six months ago."
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"So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas."
Work
"And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students."
Goal
"Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."
People
"The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before."
Work
"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
Attention
"Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time."
Time
"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."
Family
"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."
People
"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
Kids
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